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NEW UPDATES as of 11/08/24
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENED!
The 2025 NCAA Annual Conference will be held on the beautiful coast of Wilmington, North Carolina at the Wilmington Convention Center on April 8th-10th, 2025. Golf will be on Tuesday with the opening reception Tuesday evening! Mark your calendars now and register as an attendee, exhibitor, and/or sponsor!
REGISTER BELOW
Conference Attendees: https://ncairports.org/
Conference Sponsors: https://ncairports.org/ncaa-
Conference Exhibitors: https://ncairports.org/
Sponsor/Exhibitor Opportunities
BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM NOW! LIMITED AVAILABILITY AT BLOCK RATE.
All hotels are walking distance to the convention center.
Hotel Ballast Wilmington, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
Our hotel sits on the Cape Fear River with a decor celebrating local maritime culture and Southern charm. The local shops and eateries of historic downtown Wilmington are footsteps away. The outdoor pool, patio, and fire pit feature views…
A $20 daily self-parking fee applies, or a $25 daily valet fee.
Service animals only.
Reservations are also available by telephone through the reservations office at +1 910-763-5900.
Embassy Suites by Hilton, Wilmington Riverfront- Wilmington, NC SOLD OUT as of now
Embassy Suites reservations requires a credit card deposit which will be charged to your card. If you wish to cancel, please do so 72 hours prior to arrival to avoid cancellation penalties.
The NCAA Reservation Cutoff Date is Friday, March 1, 2025. Reservations received after this date or after the block is filled are subject to prevailing rates and availability.
Accessible and Pet rooms have limited availability; $75.00 non-refundable fee, $75(1-4n), $125(5+n). 2 pets Max, dog/cat only.
Current overnight parking charges for in-house guests are as follows (subject to change): $22.00 per day for outside self-parking or garage parking, and $30.00 per day for valet parking. Separate parking charges will apply for day guests.
Smoking; A fee of up to 250 USD will be assessed for smoking in a non-smoking room. Please ask the Front Desk for locations of designated outdoor smoking areas.
Reservations are also available by telephone through the Central Reservations Office at +1 910-765-1131.
ALoft Wilmington at Coastline Center – Wilmington, NC LIMITED AVAILABILITY SOLD OUT as of now
Located in downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear River where modern style meets historical charm.
A $20 daily self-parking fee applies, or a $25 daily valet fee.
Reservations are also available by telephone through the Reservations office at +1 910-377-7600
2025 Conference Working Agenda
“Back to our Roots”
“Learning how to promote, protect, and continue developing your airport/business into the future.”
Meet our 2025 Keynote and Banquet Speakers!
Matt Mayberry:
Matt Mayberry is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on leadership development and culture. His insights on leadership, culture, and business performance have appeared in publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, NBC, ABC, Fox Business, and ESPN, to name a few. Global Gurus named Matt one of the world’s Top 30 Leadership Thought Leaders for 2023. His latest book, Culture Is the Way, debuted as a National bestseller and was named as a must-read by Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club.
Lt. Col. Robert J. Darling:
In October 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Darling retired from the United States Marine Corps with just over twenty years of active-duty service. He flew attack helicopters in Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the first Gulf War and in Somalia, Africa, in support of Operation Restore Hope. In June 1998, he was selected to fly as a presidential pilot with Marine Helicopter Squadron One and in October 2000, was handpicked to work for the White House Military Office, Airlift Operations Department. It was in that capacity that Lt. Col. Darling supported the President, Vice President and National Security Advisor in the President’s Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) on September 11, 2001. As a public speaker on crisis leadership and decision making, Bob has addressed numerous academic, government, and military organizations to include Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and as a guest lecturer on the subject of Crisis Leadership and Counterterrorism at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Bob is the author of 24 Hours Inside the President’s Bunker, 9/11/01: The White House. He is the President and CEO of Flash Emergency Management, a crisis leadership training and technology company located in Stafford, Virginia.
Considering Year-End Giving?
As the conference approaches, the NCAA Educational Foundation gears up to provide the 2025 recipient scholarships for both the Bruce Matthews and NCAA Awards. Did you know you can directly donate to the Educational Foundation? Learn more on our website to review sponsorship levels and other ways to give back. https://ncairports.org/ncaa-scholarship-foundation/
Something that we ALL look forward to each conference is the silent auction!! Does your company or airport want to contribute an item to support the foundation and get the crowd riled up for bidding? Email Emily Winberg at emily@ncairports.org for more information.
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The Laurinburg-Maxton Airport Presents TOP GUN MAVERICK
Laurinburg-Maxton Airport, on Saturday, November 16th, will be hosting MOVIE NIGHT! Gates will open at 5:00 p.m. for everyone to enjoy inflatables, face painting, and food trucks. The main event will be an outdoor showing of the movie Top Gun: Maverick starting around 6:30 p.m.
NC Airports Program Handbook
Dear N.C. Airport Community Colleagues,
Attached please find a copy of the updated North Carolina Airports Program Guidance Handbook, which is now available on our NCDOT Connect site.
This handbook is designed to serve as a complete guide to the programs, funding processes and requirements of the many financial and technical programs and services we offer at the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation (NCDOT Aviation).
You’ll find:
Roles and responsibilities of North Carolina’s public use airports and the government agencies that support them
Information on state and federal funding sources and programs
Steps for managing publicly funded airport infrastructure development projects
References for statutory and regulatory requirements
Guidelines for selecting airport consultants
We hope this handbook update will become a much-used tool for the entire airport community, answering your questions, guiding your engagement with our office and managing development across our airport system. Feel free to share this with other pertinent or new stakeholders.
As always, please reach out to your regional airport project manager with any questions. And thank you for all you do to build a strong and resilient public airport system for North Carolina.
AIG Funds for GA Airports- Letter from NCDOT Division of Aviation
N.C. General Aviation Airport Colleagues,
Your NCAA Board at our quarterly meeting had a robust discussion with NCDOT Division of Aviation about a variety of issues, including our state’s drawdown of federal Airport Infrastructure Grants funds (AIG).
That discussion prompts me to write and ask that general aviation airports request your AIG funds from NCDOT Aviation as soon as possible, if you have not already. (NCDOT applies for AIG funds on behalf of GA airports. Commercial service airports apply for and receive and receive AIG funds directly from FAA).
As of today, N.C. general airports have requested only $6.5 million of the $37.9 million in AIG funds available to them. Only $1.5 million has been awarded and only $142,000 expended. North Carolina has one of the lowest AIG application rates of any state. And because of this, in the last month, NCDOT has received inquiries about it from the N.C. General Assembly, FAA and Board of Transportation.
Our airports have enjoyed tremendous funding support in recent years. It is imperative that we show our stakeholders we are effectively using the funds we receive, from all sources, to deliver a stronger system of public airports for our communities.
If you need guidance on requesting funds, refer to the AIG collection guidance posted on the NCDOT Connect site, the slides from the March training or the email each airport received in April showing the balance of funds you are eligible to request. And, as always, feel free to contact your airport project manager for assistance determining what projects are suitable for these funds and how to request them.
Thank you for your attention to this request and for all of your efforts to demonstrate the value of public investment in North Carolina’s airport system.
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Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief Efforts
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